Josh is getting a mac
I’ve never been too much of an apple fan until recently. Sure, i’ve had an ipod like most people these days, but that’s about as far as i went. It’s only been recently, since windows vista has been terrible that i’ve looked elsewhere. Now i’ve looked into macs in the past, and i just didn’t see such a big reason to switch over. But, with the vista problems in the last few weeks, i’ve decided that i’ll have both a pc and a mac.
It hasn’t been easy to choose which mac to buy, all i knew is that i wanted a notebook. I waited til macworld to make my decision, and it wasn’t too hard in the end. As many of you should know, apple recently released a 3rd notebook in their current product line. It’s the ultra portable macbook air. Whilst this notebook has a great design, the specs still leave something to be desired. That’s my reason for going against the air.
In the end, i chose the macbook pro. The fact that it has a larger screen and i’ll be able to use it on my 30″ monitor makes it great. I’m definitely looking forward to this baby arriving in the mail 
So, expect to see some podcasts (hopefully) in the near future. Running on a mac and a laptop will be a new experience to me.
Nice choice on the mac.
If you don’t like vista maybe you should check out Linux.
There are lots of great distro’s.
I ran my macbook on my 42in sony tv, who said it wouldnt run on a 30in monitor?
anyways.. glad your joining the mac side
You’ll love it. I switched to make in December (bought a Macbook Pro too) and it’s the best thing I’ve ever bought.
I have a high end gaming PC, yet my Mac is blazingly faster than it.
Nice! I want one of those Macbook Air’s but of course they’re for two different purposes.
Ever since Mac has been packaged with Unix, it has been a great OS. You will enjoy - I happen to be awaiting a brand new MacBook in the mail as well
Congrats on the decision Josh, the Pro will hardly let you down
I’m still “stuck” with my good ol’ first generation regular MacBook, but I love it. Small, portable, and most of all, as stable and troublefree as no Windows computer I’ve experienced.
It’s about time!
I have no doubt you’ll thoroughly enjoy it, and you’ll be used to it in no time.
My fiancee has a Macbook Pro, but I just can’t get used to it. She is a designer by trade, so swears by it but when it comes to writing and editing text, the Mac just drives me crazy. No right-click button - what’s with that? You can only delete text in one direction, no page up and page down buttons? Grrrrr!
I know these are things you can get used to or learn shortcuts for, but for me I would rather spend time working rather than learning new methods that just leave me frustrated.
I will concede that Vista stinks, though!
- Martin Reed
Thanks guys,
I’ll take some pictures and let you know what i think of it once it’s here.
Nice choice Josh, I’ve got a MacBook myself — they’re pretty neat.
Also, Martin, the shortcuts didn’t take me so long to learn, you can set it up so that double tap does right click and I believe there is a key combination also. Regarding deleting in one direction, by pressing fn + backspace you can delete as a ‘del’ button would on Windows. It’s different but once you get used to it, it may as well always been like that!
Very nice! I’ve just bought a new laptop - Dell - can wait till it comes! I would really like a Macbook but unfortunately can’t afford one at the moment. I’ll have one eventually!
Nice choice.
I got a Mac last January and it’s superb, enjoy it!
I made the move from a tower running XP to a MacBook Pro (probably the same as yours), and I love it to bits, and probably won’t ever go back. You definitely made the right choice - I think the Air is only really for space travellers!
If you haven’t used a Mac before, you’ll find it a little weird for a week or so - but it shouldn’t take long to find all the apps/shortcuts etc. Podcast, video blogging etc are all doable straight out of the box.
Welcome to the Apple cult. I purchased a MacBook Pro last July and I absolutely love it.